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From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
To: Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
Cc: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
	Max Valdez <maxvaldez@yahoo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Undelete files on ext3 ??
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:45:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030107094547.GG2141@vagabond> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301071004550.30728-100000@dns.toxicfilms.tv>

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:29:06AM +0100, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> > There is no simple way, no.
> What about IDE Taskfile access, it's help says something like it's the
> crown jewel of hard drive forensics.
> 
> One question, how ext2/3 deletes files? similarily to fat by renaming the
> first character?

No. By removing the directory entry completely and marking the inode
unused.

By the way, there used to be undelete tool for ext2. It created a list
of deleted inodes with correct stat, but no names, only their inode
numbers. You could then pick the corect inode and give it a name, thus
bringing it back to life. Since ext3 is just ext2 with journal, I guess
it might work. It existed as a standalone tool and integrated to
midnight commander.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-07  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-07  3:58 Undelete files on ext3 ?? Max Valdez
2003-01-07  8:59 ` Marco d'Itri
2003-01-07  8:59 ` John Bradford
2003-01-07  9:29   ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-01-07  9:45     ` Jan Hudec [this message]
2003-01-07 17:38       ` Max Valdez
2003-01-07 17:53         ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-07 17:57         ` John Bradford
2003-01-07 18:56           ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-07 18:17         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-07 18:41           ` Virtual WORM device John Bradford
2003-01-07 18:53             ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-07 18:54             ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 18:24             ` Vishal Verma
2003-01-07 18:45           ` Undelete files on ext3 ?? Jesse Pollard
2003-01-07 18:55           ` Andreas Dilger
2003-01-08  5:01             ` Gerhard Mack
2003-01-08  8:00               ` Jan Hudec
2003-01-08 10:57                 ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 21:33                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-08 21:47                     ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 21:51                       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-08 22:06                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-08 23:03                           ` John Bradford
2003-01-08 23:14                             ` John Bradford
2003-01-09  9:42                     ` Helge Hafting
2003-01-07 20:58           ` Mike Waychison
2003-01-09  8:27           ` Michael Knigge
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.3.95.1030107131613.3523A-100000@chaos.analogic.co m>
2003-01-07 23:51           ` Billy Rose
2003-01-07 11:30     ` John Bradford
2003-01-07 11:45       ` Matti Aarnio
2003-01-07 12:39       ` Alan Cox
2003-01-08 20:00   ` Michael Milligan
2003-01-07  9:16 ` David van Hoose
2003-01-07 19:31 ` oford
2003-01-08 11:57 ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-07  9:58 Alexander Sandler
2003-01-08 10:03 bart

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